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Perennials: Looking for a nice z4/5 grass that likes wet feet, 0 by HoosierGreen

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HoosierGreen wrote:
You've got dozens to choose from. The entire, huge family of Miscanthus cultivars thrives in moist to wet soils, even heavy clay, but best in full sun. For taller cultivars, choose from 'Adagio', 'Maiden Grass', 'Morning Light', 'Porcupine Grass', 'Cabaret', and Variegated Japanese Silver Grass (photo). These all grow from 5'-6'.

Also consider the shorter, but striking, feather reed grass, Calamagrostis x acutiflora, the most common being 'Karl Foerster', the 2001 Perennial Plant of the Year. It grows to ony3'-4' but flowers before any others in May or early June and remains attractive all summer.